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Flexibility In Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees Trial - "the FIRST Trial"

NCT02050789 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 152

Last updated 2017-09-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Resident duty hour requirements in the U.S. are still evolving as stakeholders continue to debate how best to (re)structure postgraduate medical education.

There is concern that current restrictions may be detrimental to patient care and resident training. To investigate these issues, the investigators will be conducting a one-year, prospective randomized trial to examine how flexibility of duty hour requirements affects patient care when compared to current resident duty hour requirements. Further information about the study is available on the FIRST Trial website http://www.thefirsttrial.org/.

Conditions

  • Patient Safety
  • Resident Work Hours

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

flexible duty hours

If a hospital is assigned to the intervention arm, all categorical and preliminary general surgery residents in that general surgery program will switch to the flexible duty hours while at an enrolled hospital.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American College of Surgeons

    collaborator OTHER

  • American Board of Surgery

    collaborator OTHER

  • Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

    collaborator OTHER

  • Northwestern University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD MS · Northwestern University, American College of Surgeons

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-06-30

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